Mission

The recommendations from the GACAG Sustainability of the Air Cargo Industry Task Force aims to address a wide range of issues, including:

The significance of the air cargo industry to global trade

The disproportionate impact of airport night curfews on the air cargo sector

The industry's on-going efforts to reduce its carbon footprint

The necessity to promote sustainable alternative fuels

The social responsibility of air cargo

The need to attract, develop and retain talents in the air cargo industry

Environmental action

The aviation industry has committed to achieve carbon neutral growth by 2020 and 50% reduction by 2050. No other industry has set up such ambitious environmental targets.
The air freight sector has an enormous role to play if aviation is to meet its environmental targets. Despite the turbulent economic times, there is a genuine desire among the whole air freight supply chain to be greener. It includes:

Efforts on transparency with the measurement of air cargo carbon footprint

Aviation has a track record in improving fuel consumption, but the message doesn't reach out the air cargo community! We therefore need to:

Increase industry engagement and collaboration

Communicate better on our actions and achievements through education campaign for the air cargo customers, publication of industry emission factors demonstrating the fuel consumption improvements, development of offsetting program for Cargo, promotion of best practices such as “Lightweight ULDs”

Economic growth

Air cargo is a premium service that needs to be marketed and sold as such. The industry needs to do more of advocacy, education and communication:

With governments – to avoid developing restrictive regulations

With airlines’ CEOs – to invest in modernizing cargo

With airports – to invest more in cargo infrastructures

With customers – to limit modal shift

Social responsability

Our industry is at risk if we fail to attract, retain and develop our people. We need to:

Increase our training efforts

Support and promote diversity

Retain & develop the future executives

In addition to training programs, the founding associations launched initiatives to address those issues